My ongoing theme is always the truth, as I see it, and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

In my proven heart centered work with combat veterans with PTSD
it is obvious that the healing power of unconditional love can facilitate
transformative change. Nowhere is that more evident than with Combat Veterans
with their special need dogs ~ for only unconditional love can penetrate the
dark shadow world of PTSD: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

“The
only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this:
love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to
love.”~ Stephen Kendrick, The
Love Dare

During
the past four years, I have been able to
successfully demonstrate in my 11 Healing The Wounded Heart (Band of Brothers)
workshops in the San Francisco Bay area with combat veterans with PTSD ~ that
reclaiming veterans' damaged souls through love, acceptance and gratefulness can
lead not only to self-healing but also full recovery.
These 8 once a week workshops enjoyed an average success rate of
approximately 60 % in all symptoms of PTSD ~ especially in the ability to love
and accept love as well as achieving a deeper sense of inner joy, peace and
well-being. See the Miracle of Heart Centered Counseling is Self-Healing
~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/02/12/miracle-of-heart-centered-counseling-is-self-healing/

But
nowhere is that more obvious than with combat veterans with their special needs
dogs ~ for the power of unconditional love can eventually penetrate the dark
shadow world of a PTSD victim, whether military or civilian. The reason is
that conscious unconditional love begets conscious unconditional love and
frozen hearts and maimed souls are often melted in the process.

As
Stephen Kendrick wrote ~ Love is not determined by the one being loved,
but rather by the one choosing to love.In other words, it is conscious
non-possessive love versus emotional need centered love and when we consciously
love we enter the sacred space of unconditional love and a Unified Fieldof love and soul
consciousness~ that is also deepest within
each one of us. All of us have the capacity to love that deeply ~ but few of
us get beyond the ego's fear based need to control or possess and are able to
access andbreath the rarefied air of true
unconditional love.

In
that regard, our pets (dogs, cats and even horses) are often reservoirs of that
love for they quiteoften have the capacity
to unconditionally love us especially when we feel alone and unloved.

As
a child, my dogs were very special to me in that regard but especially in
college where my dog INKYbecame our
fraternity house pet. But my horse SCOUT was the best example of the healing
power of unconditional loveand the one
choosing to love.

I
was going through a painful separation from my second wife and living in a
rented room on a horse ranch in Sonoma, California. My horse SCOUT became my
connection to source and the healing power of love ~ for every day I cleaned
his hoofs, rode him at full gallop in the vineyards and then washed and groomed
him and fed him. It was a conscious choice to love and nurture him every day
and in the process I healed myself through that love and learned how to
unconditionally love.

Soon
after that, it came time to let go of SCOUT because of the demands of my work
and very quickly the perfect buyer respondedto
my ad, who had dreamed about SCOUT, agreed on a more than fair price, built a
corral for him and allowed me to transition SCOUT into his new family and
environment. It was easy for me to let go of SCOUT for in loving him I had
reconnected to source and I in turn was now providing the perfect family to
love, nurture and ride him during the last years of his life. Letting go of
SCOUT, as such, was an act of conscious unconditional love and there was no
sense of loss but instead celebration and completion
~ for his future happiness was more important to methan my
selfishly holding on to him. We had finished our healing time together and it
was time to let go. Great love can both take hold and let go and the same
thing can happen in relationship ~ for those who we love deeply become
part of us forever and still live in our hearts.

Watch
these two Veterans with PTSD, especially David Sharpe and his dog Cheyenne,
react with their dogs and how their pet's unconditional love sets the stage for
their own eventual self-healing and ability to love and accept love. 5 Minute
Video ~

When
combat veterans with PTSD lovingly relate to their special needs pets ~ they
are in essence setting the stage to fully love and forgive themselves as well
as to love and allow others to fully love
them.

“Dogs are how people would be if the
important stuff is all that mattered to us.”~ A. Lorenzana

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Relatives
of a boy killed Thursday in explosions at a UN school sheltering Gaza residents
grieving over his body at a hospital.

With a death toll of over 800 dead and climbing daily, the
photos from Gaza are like a Goya painting depicting the desperation and frenzy
of Palestinians existing in a living hell with no apparent escape ~ surrounded
by solders with their guns pointed ~ while complicit Israeli's watch on
hilltops from beyond their Iron Dome and celebrate with their neighbors their
barely concealed ethnic cleansing in triumphal glee. The Palestinians most certainly have the right to their self defense: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

Francisco
Goya's Third of May, 1808 / click on picture to enlarge

Goya's
masterpiece Third of May,1808 fully captures the desperation and despair of an
entrapped Spanish people facing their eminent death at the hands of their
brutal French occupiers. To fully understand the significance of Goya's classic
painting of repression as well as its similarities today, please watch this
magnificent 12 minute video ~ BBC The Private Life Of A Masterpiece - Goya's Third of
May 1808 (2/4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qu1iehzdDE

And when you watch this
video, you will realize what that Spaniard iscrying
out to his French executioners ~ and it's
the same cry the entrapped Palestinians are crying out to their brutal Israeli
occupiers~ WHY?

And it’s a
question that the world must soon find an answer ~ for this long festering cancer of illegal repression and
apartheid is spreading and must end soon before it's too late.

The
recent invasion of Gaza testifies to the depraved and morally bankrupt
character of the Zionist regime in Israel. The government headed by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represents an isolated and demoralized ruling class
that has lost its head and has no answer to the crisis it confronts except
disorientated and homicidal outbursts of violence and ethnic cleansing ~
which they laughingly call 'mowing the lawn'.

Even
the son of a famous Zionist general, Miko Peled, shares that the current preoccupation of Israel with Iran
is a smokescreen to cover up apartheid with Palestine, that the only law that
applies to Palestinians is Israeli military law and that only a bottom up
American demand for human rights and democracy can change orbreak the
Israeli garrison apartheid stateand
itsAIPAC supporters. See article:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/19/a-zionist-generals-son-shatters-the-myths/

This
mass slaughter against a defenseless Palestinian population serves only to
deepen the revulsion and hostility toward Zionism throughout the Middle East,
around the world and among Jewish workers in Israel itself, What will this map
look like in 2016 ~ particularly when on Friday, the US Senate voted 100-0 to support Israel's
recent invasion of occupied Gaza.

Perhaps only poetry can
adequately describe the living hell of occupied Palestine;

Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street
near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future
or have faith that the past will always be there.

Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the
constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket
attack from an M16.

A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped
for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli
prison: just a random arbitrary death.

A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while
you watch your family dying around you.

Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in
silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the
earth, water falling over water.

And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and
your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then
you know something of the courage that is Palestine.” ~
Suheir
Hammad

Friday, July 18, 2014

The U.S. condoned war zone of Gaza with omnipresent Israeli watchtower

The myth of Israel's right to Palestine as well as their
illegal and brutal U.S. supported Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
has finally been exposed and shattered by a Zionist Generals' son, Miko Peled ~
who reveals in his book that Israel's rabid Zionists are very similar to
America's rabid neo-conservatives and that the only hope for the region depends
on a bottom up American public outcry for human rights and democracy to replace
the current Israel Garrison state of subjugation and apartheid: Allen L Roland,
Ph.D

Innocent victim of U.S. condoned and military supported Apartheid in Gaza

On Wednesday, Gaza's health
ministry, which keeps casualty figures, said 209 Palestinians had been killed
and 1,560 were injured as the fighting continued for a ninth day. At least 39 children
and 24 women were among the dead, officials said. In actuality, 80% of the killed and injured
are civilians.Remember, there is no
Israeli Iron Dome to protect Palestinian civilians and children~this is not
war, it's genocide.

Below is a photograph of the anguished wail of a grieving father of one of the four young boys who was killed by an
Israeli strike in Gaza on Wednesday. The boys, all cousins and under the age of
12, had been playing soccer on the beach when the Israelis attack occurred. The man’s picture, by photographer Hosam Salem, was taken during the boys’ funeral.

The open sore of man's brutal inhumanity to man continues unabated in
Gaza despite the cries of many of the world's humanitarian leaders to end this
Zionist and American sanctioned slaughter of occupied and oppressed civilians
and their rightful defenders. This ongoing atrocity is paying a psychic toll
on the world's conscience and can no longer go on unabated without severe
consequences.

But now we have an honest Israeli Jew, Miko Peled, the son of a Zionist General,
telling the Real Truth about Israel and the ravages of unchecked Zionism.

Miko
Peled was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist
family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also
served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide
bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but
surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and
persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own
lives.

Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with
his own research, Miko Peled peals away the myths surrounding the Israel and
Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel
supporters will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the
original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their
descendants either, covers the double standards regarding the right of return,
which doesn't apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a
conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful up until 1947 when
Israel launched their illegal attacks.

Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of
Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not
difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for
the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for
too long been blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media,
and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years
documenting the real story.

The
last 20 minutes of this riveting 65 minute video are spontaneous questions and answers where Miko
shares that the current preoccupation of Israel with Iran is a smokescreen to
cover up apartheid with Palestine, that the only law that applies to Palestinians
is Israeli military law and that only a bottom up American demand for human
rights and democracy can change orbreak the Israeli garrison apartheid stateand itsAIPAC
supporters.

As Margaret Kimberley correctly writes in ICH ~ "Of all
the partners in international crime in existence right now, the United States
and Israel are the worst. Along with their less powerful cohorts like Saudi
Arabia they have instigated occupations and carnage on a mass scale. Yet while
one hand washes the other, it isn’t always clear who controls whom. Israel uses
the political and economic muscle of its supporters to keep American politicians
in line, but it also doesn’t have to work very hard to find a receptive ear in
Washington."

Sunday, July 13, 2014

The final nail in the coffin of East Coast sports dominance was
provided by the LA Kings winning the coveted Stanley Cup for the second time in
three years with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in June, 2014. As a
native New Englander, I once worshipped the Boston Bruins, Red Sox and New York
Giants but when my beloved Giants moved west in1958 shortly after my move west
as a Naval Aviator ~ my allegiance shifted and I saw the handwriting on
the wall which has now become reality. The West is now supreme in pro sports
with Baseball, Football, Basketball and now Hockey leading the parade ~ and the
East Coast is just beginning to sense this truth: Allen L Roland

To
a Brazilian, the feeling would be like watching its National Soccer team
recently be trounced by Germany 7-1 in the World Cup ~ shocked disbelief.

Now
let me set the record straight on another more palpable sportstruth~ It's
all over for East Coast Sports dominance ~ the West Coast is already dominant
which will soon become obvious to Boston, New York and the rest of the East
coast.

Let's
take it sport by sport:

1.
Major league Baseball ~ The best record in Baseball belongs to the surgingOakland A's (buoyed
by Billy Beane's recent pitching steal from the Chicago Cubs)followed closely by the Los Angeles Angels, San
Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers. Detroit and Milwaukee have decent
records in weak divisions. The Yankees and Red Sox are currently tired relics
from the past.

2.
National Hockey League ~ the torch has been handed to the West andStanley Cup two time Winner Los Angeles Kings as
well as the San Jose Sharks and Anaheim Ducks who are close behind.

3.
National Football league ~ The super bowl championsSeattle Seahawks and San
Francisco 49ers are the two best teams in the NFL and continue to set the
standard for excellence.

4.
National Basketball Association ~ The World champion San Antonio Spurs,
as well as the LA Clippers and Golden State Warriors are the class of the west.

My
point is that the West Coasthas clear
superiority over the East Coast in major professional sports ~ which
will become more apparent this year when the Oakland A's will most probably
face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

To
avid sports fans, such as myself, the place to be is on the West Coast ~ which
I innately knew as a childand havelived as an adult. LeBron
James should actively consider this possibility even though he has made the
decision to return to his Mid-West hometown Cleveland. However, that may end up
being a pit stop on his journey West for there is only one logical finallocation for LeBron James ~ and that is the Los Angeles Lakers where his star will gain
even further luster as well as enhance the ageing skills of his friend andfellow superstar Kobe Bryant.

50
years ago, I would never have envisioned this West Coast dominance but now it's
obvious and somewhat validating since I am the only one in my family to hear
and follow the Call of the West as poet Gerald Gould so ably writes;

“Beyond
the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea,
And East and West the wanderlust that will not let me be;
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say good-by!
For the seas call and the stars call, and oh, the call of the sky!

I know not where the white road runs, nor what the blue hills are,
But man can have the sun for friend, and for his guide a star;
And there's no end of voyaging when once the voice is heard,
For the river calls and the road calls, and oh, the call of a bird!

Yonder the long horizon lies, and there by night and day
The old ships draw to home again, the young ships sail away;
And come I may, but go I must, and if men ask you why,
You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the sky!”
~ Gerald Gould

To me, my stars were
the writings of Jack London (Call of the Wild) which stirred my young
active imagination and made it easy to listen to and follow my heart and
destiny ~ and. to my delight, the New York Giants followed me to the San
Francisco Bay area in 1958.But it was
also the spirit of creative freedom, daring and innovation that I correctly
sensed on the West Coast compared to the stifling tradition, provincialism and
allegiance to the status quo of the East Coast.

The days of Mays,
McCovey, Marichal and Cepeda are long past and now it's Cespedes, Moss,
Donaldson, Doolittle, Norris and kazmir who fuel my sports
fire for the young, driven and relentless Oakland A's are now the team
to beat in the West.

I'm glad I'm an avid
sports fan and I know it's healthy to stay excited about life and its events even
as the Empire crumbles around us ~ for there is something innocent, noble and
exhilarating in watching your favorite team endure the exhilaration of victory
and agony of defeat ~ which somehow is a not too subtle reminder of what
life is really like when we are fully engaged.

“Never let the fear
of striking out keep you from playing the game” ~ Babe Ruth

Friday, July 4, 2014

The last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism and this
Independence Day 2014 as we celebrate our independence with parades, picnics
and fireworks ~ let us not forget the clowns and scoundrels who cloak
themselves in patriotism and represent the worst of America. There is no more
despised clown or scoundrel who still represents the worst of American values,
yet continues to cloak himself in patriotism, than Darth Vader himself, Dick
Cheney ~ the behind the scenes architect of the 9/11 attacks and cover up, the
promoter of the illegal war with Iraq for Oil resources, the instigator of
illegal rendition, Guantanamo as well as the torture memos and whose
self-described travels on the dark side have left America's crumbling Empire
morally barren and spiritually lost: Allen L Roland

Dick
Cheney is like a deadly and now dormantvampire
who lives in the darkness and can only be truly eliminated by a wooden stake of
truth driven into his treasonous heart of denial whereas the truth of 9/11 will
finally be revealed as well as Cheney's role in America's greatest act of
treason ~ a 9/11 cover up which is still being protected and ignored by the
Obama administration.

First,
the crumbling Empire.Only Chris Hedges
truly captures the true ghoulish face of a fading American Empire as seen in
the current disintegration of Iraq ~ "The
disintegration of Iraq is irreversible. At best, the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunnis will carve out
antagonistic enclaves. At worst, there will be a protracted civil war. This
is what we have bequeathed to Iraq. The spread of our military through the
region has inflamed jihadists across the Arab world. The resulting conflicts
will continue until we end our occupation of the Middle East. The callous
slaughter we deliver is no different from the callous slaughter we receive. Our
jihadists ~ George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld,
Richard Perle, Thomas Friedman and Tommy Franks ~ who assured us that swift and
overwhelming force in Iraq would transform the Middle East into an American
outpost of progress, are no less demented than the jihadists approaching
Baghdad. These two groups of killers mirror each other. This is what we have
spawned. And this is what we deserve" See article ~ http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_ghoulish_face_of_empire_20140623

Next, the
barely living symbol and still performing clown of this crumbling Circus or
Empire ~ Dick Cheney.

Cheney at Obama's 2009
inauguration

Suggested
Caption: Obama's on board with the cover-up, now it's time to write my
memoirs.

Dick
Cheney's recent words of projectionspeak
for themselves ~ " Rarely has a U.S. President been so wrong about so
much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us
he is 'ending' the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ~ as though wishing is made it
so." June
17,2014 op-ed with his daughter Liz in the Wall Street Journal.

Now let's
review Dick Cheney's fabrications and wishful thinkingduring the concerted Cheney led effort to sell our illegal war and
occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2005.

"Simply
stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction." August 22, 2002

"We
believe he has reconstituted nuclear weapons" March 16, 2003

"My
belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators" March 16, 2003

"In
Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means
to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, has an established relationship
with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more." Nov 7, 2003

"
What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend
all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action." Oct 5, 2004

"
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency" June 20, 2005

Thom
Hartmann briefly describes the true cost of the Iraq war ~ "The Iraq War was the single biggest foreign policy
disaster in recent - or maybe even all - of American history. It cost the
country around $4 trillion dollars, killed hundreds of thousands, if not
millions of innocent civilians, left 4,500 Americans dead, and turned what was
once one of the more developed countries in the Arab World into a
slaughterhouse."

The obvious
question is why would Dick Cheney obviously lie and deceive both the public and
everyone around himself in both the run up to and aftermath of our illegal
occupation of Iraq?

The
equally obvious answer is Dick Cheney sees himself as a patriot and was and is
still committed to defending the lie of Iraq because if he didn't ~ he would
have to defend his and the Bush/Cheney administration's role in the
orchestration of the needed Pearl Harbor event or the Bigger lie of 9/11
which led to the attack of Iraq. Cheney's best defense has always been his
belief in a strong offensewhich explains his current blatant denial of
the facts regarding Iraq.

And
here's the 11 minute YouTube must see documentary of theCheney, Bush and the PNAC Criminal Conspiracy to invade Iraq
which obviously was preceded by the PNACannounced
need for a new Pearl Harbor ~ which lo and behold became 9/11 within a
year and the now infamous and thoroughly discredited official 9/11
story. See video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqqCYSfV2k

Mark Twain correctly wrote
~ Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your
government when it deserves it ~ and our government most certainly does not
deserve to be supported when it comes to usinga
highly suspicious9/11 attack as a
justification for the illegal war and occupation of Iraq.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism ….and today we sorely need it.

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About Me

I'm a disabled active duty Navy veteran who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived my dreams, including being a Navy carrier fighter pilot. I found myself by fully opening my heart, wrote three books, sired four children and I'm still living my ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of celebration and service. My 1998 PhD dissertation on the UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Noetic Science and Common Boundary as one of the top three world finalists on combining psychology and spirituality. I retired from my private practice in 2014, because of my service connected asbestosis related lung disease, and live in Antioch, California but still remain involved as a featured columnist on Veterans Today and heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor ~ particularly with combat veterans with PTSD as well as others with PTHD ( Post Traumatic Heart Disorder).